Events
BPL Group develops and delivers a variety of market-leading events for both domestic and international markets across the broadcast, telecoms and IT sectors.
Connected Media|IP is the solutions destination at NAB Show that explores the underlying technologies enabling audiences to receive, discover and interact with content across any device, anywhere. It sits at the heart of the distribution/delivery/online video technology areas at NAB Show in Las Vegas, an event that attracts over 100,000 visitors each April.
Connected Media|IP is the main hub for businesses wanting to demonstrate and discuss IP-focused technology including IPTV, OTT, streaming, mobile, social, and cloud with a focused and engaged audience. BPL Broadcast uses an innovative mix of exhibition space, seminar theatres, filmed studios, and live streaming services to create an immersive ‘event within an event’ at the world’s leading broadcast technology show.
Due to the phenomenal success of Connected Media|IP at NAB Show in Las Vegas, BPL Broadcast Ltd extended its partnership with the National Association of Broadcasters to include the sister event, staged each October in New York City.
NAB Show New York is the most important media and entertainment event on the East Coast of the United States, covering television, film, satellite, online video, live events, corporate A/V, production, and post. The addition of ConnectedMedia|IP provides a solutions destination at the show exploring the underlying technologies enabling audiences to receive, discover and interact with content across any device, anywhere.
Future of Delivery @ NAB Show is an event built around an on-floor theatre featuring content from industry visionaries looking at topics such as 5G, mobile video, streaming, satelliteIP, LEO satellite, and any other technology impacting the future of distribution and delivery in the media broadcast space.
Future of Delivery offers opportunities to exhibit, sponsor and secure a second presence at NAB Show within a highly focused and widely promoted area. Future of Delivery @ NAB Show is a joint venture between BPL Broadcast and the National Association of Broadcasters, the same team that has delivered Connected Media|IP @ NAB Show for many successful years.
An established part of the channel community calendar, the Comms Dealer Sales & Marketing Awards provides ICT channel businesses with a unique opportunity to acknowledge the skill, determination and success of their sales and marketing teams. Celebrate their success in style.
The Comms National Awards recognise innovation and excellence across the comms and ICT channels. Categories include a range of reseller solution awards showcasing best of breed end user solutions, vendor awards recognising service and technology innovations and people awards recognising key players in the sector
Launched in 2006, Comms Vision is the UK channel’s strategic summit and delivers the industry’s most authoritative conference content across two inspiring days. Comms Vision remains the most eagerly awaited invitation among the UK’s major ICT solution providers.
Part of the hugely successful ‘Margin in’ series of events, Margin in Mobile provides the most effective platform for vendors to showcase their products and services to ICT resellers offering (or looking to offer) mobile solutions to SME and enterprise end users. If you supply or wish to provide mobile, wireless or IOT solutions, this is the event for you.
For a decade, Margin in Voice & Data has provided voice and data resellers with valuable insights into how new technologies are evolving in SME workplace environments and, crucially, what commercial opportunities these represent for channel businesses.
IT channels of all types, including service providers, are having to rethink their strategies in the face of rising and changing threats to their customers. They are looking for guidance on how to keep customers informed, advice on how to build alliances and form partnerships and on using marketing to open up new security business, as well as keeping updated with technologies.
Security is a fast-developing discipline, but the players range from traditional resellers putting a toe in the water of service provision to those born-in-the-cloud suppliers and specialist builders of security practices. Many of the themes and ideas are new and worth exploring by all types of partner. While some channels are looking for a particular solution to address key vertical market compliance models, others would like to join an eco-system with like-minded partners keen to develop in partnership with others.
This event will offer a forum for developing understanding – from the changing nature of the threat and identifying new opportunities, to building a sound business model, it will also cover specialist legal advice, training and education, understanding risk, exploring new technology areas such as IoT and AI, application, edge and end-point security, and the wider issues of negotiating security sales and implications for customers.
The European IT & Software Excellence Awards have been designed to recognise and reward excellence in European software development, IT and telecoms solutions provision. Firmly established as Europe’s most prestigious IT channel awards, the European IT & Software Excellence Awards will bring together leading channel partners, resellers, system integrators, ISVs, ISPs, service providers, distributors, solutions and marketing channels from across Europe to demonstrate their ability to provide industry-leading IT solutions for their customers.
Managed services as a supply model continues to change and develop, and the best way to stay current is to exchange ideas and see what is already working well for others. The Managed Services Summit is firmly established as the leading managed services event for channel organisations. The Managed Services Summit Europe will examine the issues facing managed service providers, hosting companies, channel partners, and suppliers as they seek to add value and evolve new business models and relationships.
The UK Managed Services Summit is firmly established as the leading managed services event for the UK IT channel. The Managed Services Summit provides insights into how managed services continues to grow and change as customer demands expand suppliers into a strategic advisory role, and the pressures for compliance and resilience impact the business model at a time of limited resources. Managed service providers, other channels and their suppliers can evolve new business models and relationships but are looking for advice and support as well as strategic business guidance.
The Managed Services Summit North has been designed to build on the success of its flagship sister summit in London which is firmly established as the leading managed services event for the UK IT channel. The summit will provide insights into how the managed services sector continues to grow and how it needs to adapt to meet evolving customer demands. The Manchester Summit takes place features conference session presentations by major industry speakers and provides extensive networking time for delegates to meet with potential business partners. The unique mix of high-level presentations plus the ability to explore and debate the related business issues with sponsors and peers across the industry makes this a must-attend event for any senior decision makers in the IT channel.
The Managed Services Awards have been designed to recognise excellence in the provision of managed services technologies, solutions and services. There are also a number of categories that recognise the crucial role that vendors/distributors/platforms/technology providers/service companies play in supporting MSPs in the delivery of managed services. The awards open for entries in May and culminate with the announcement of winners at a dinner following the UK Managed Services Summit in London.
The current climate is creating previously unimaginable pressures on businesses of all kinds and creating an environment in which managed services will have to be delivered much more effectively. Customers are under pressure to do more with less, and so their services suppliers must be as well. Skilled resources are in limited supply even as the squeeze on demand and an ever-wider range of solution calls for greater efforts from the industry. On top of this, fundamental changes in working practices and a surge in cyber-crime is raising issues for the entire customer base and MSPs themselves are targets. How to square this circle, increase efficiency and both develop deliver more value using smarter solutions, better tools, marketing and communications is the primary focus of this special event at probably the most significant time in the history of managed services.
The XaaS (Everything-as-a-Service) Summit will explore the latest trends in the growth of this exciting new market, the critical role the channel is playing in its development and the new opportunities being created. The recent impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant surge in demand for remote working has recently further accelerated the growth of XaaS and created new challenges for vendor’s and channels like. The XaaS Summit will take place exclusively online.